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Drupal documentation team leadership change

We have some changes to announce relative to Drupal's documentation team.

Firstly, I'd like to thank Addison Berry (add1sun) for her two years of service as the Drupal documentation lead. She has done a great job of coaching documentation contributors and developing a vision for Drupal's documentation during her time as the lead. Addison has recently decided it was time to step down from this role, and I am pleased to be able to have her pass the torch onto a pair of keen documentation contributors.

Jennifer and Ariane co-led the Drupal 7 help page upgrade last winter, and have since been putting great efforts into maintaining the online and core documentation, managing their respective issue queues, running sprints at various DrupalCamps, Summits, and DrupalCons, and helping mentor other documentation contributors. Formalizing their roles within the community will help to allow them to continue and further their efforts to improve Drupal's documentation with the help of the documentation team.

Drupal is a collaborative effort, so Ariane and Jennifer would love to have your help working on the documentation. One of their top priorities is to enable others to contribute. The documentation team has a Drupal group at http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team, which you are encouraged to join -- this is a great venue for discussions of new ideas and directions. If you have ideas to share or need help getting started as a contributor, you can usually find Ariane (arianek) and Jennifer (jhodgdon) on the #drupal-contribute and #drupal-docs IRC channels.

Addison, Ariane, Jennifer, and several other members of the documentation team will be meeting in early December in Vancouver (http://groups.drupal.org/node/105309) to work on the leadership transition and discuss strategies and priorities. This meeting will be followed by a day-long documentation sprint Saturday, December 11 -- the sprint will be both in person and on IRC, so please join in!

As a volunteer webmaster in a nonprofit group, I could have never used Drupal without the Documentation section. As a volunteer, I know the time and energy that it takes to organize, followup, and recruit others to handle a large task, such as the Drupal Documentation.

Addison, thank you for your years of service and doing a great job to promote the use of Drupal and helping those of us who have leaped onto the Drupal highway like deer in the headlights.

Ariane and Jennifer, thank you for your willingness to perform the important task of maintaining this vital educational tool called Documentation.

I hope Drupal documentation will one day accept easy addition of pictures (snapshots) and friendly URLs, include icons in the menus and buttons to add HTML tags, instead of the present soviet-like as-little-graphic-as-possible user interface.

Hopefully the new team will keep expanding the Drupal documentation which is already pretty expensive and moreover open. The strong community helps a lot.
I would like to see more guides and case study that could help online marketers sell Drupal in-house or as an digital agency :-)